Pictish symbols revealed as a written language through application of Shannon entropy

Many prehistoric societies have left a wealth of inscribed symbols for which the meanings are lost. For example, the Picts, a Scottish, Iron Age culture, left a few hundred stones expertly carved with highly stylized petroglyph symbols. Although the symbol scripts are assumed to convey information,...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Proceedings of the Royal Society. A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences, 2010-09, Vol.466 (2121), p.2545-2560
Hauptverfasser:	Lee, Rob, Jonathan, Philip, Ziman, Pauline
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Datasets Entropy Heraldry Language Linguistics Literary characters Petroglyph Pictish Prehistoric Script Shannon Entropy Stone Syllables Symbol Vocabulary Words
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